Ok, I lied!

[fishnbanjo]

Many have seen I have quite a few Calabash pipes, some classic gourd body with removable Meerschaum bowl, some not so classical with the body being made with something other than gourd but with removable bowl which is of a different material than Meerschaum.
The next 3 JT Cooke pipes are the classic Calabash shape but the bowl is part of the pipe.
First up is this near wine colored body with the Cooke craggy blast and a amber colored stem. Keeping it smokey with some Esoterica Tilbury.

banjo

 

[tozert]

My favourite tobacco in my favourite makers pipe...I envy you, fishnbanjo!

 

[mso489]

I'm always intrigued when briar pipes with a rounded brim are labeled Calabash shape. Often they are, otherwise, Dublin shaped. It's one of those pipe terms that gets used loosely, so you just have to be attentive and know what you're getting. Now this briar Calabash looks like a Calabash shape to me, sans gourd.

 

[madox07]

I have always found the calabash shape rather intriguing, but never had a chance to smoke one, nor was I too set up on a quest for purchasing one. Is it that different of a smoker, from you other, let's say, more common shapes?

 

[fishnbanjo]

For any solidly built Calabash shape be it Briar, Strawberrywood, Olivewood or other wood it would smoke like a conventional pipe of like wood since it doesn't have a large air chamber like the traditional Calabash does but just the shape.

banjo